Social influence

Question 1

The Stanford Prison Experiment showed the effects of 3 things. What were they?

Answer 1

Deindividuation, dehumanisation and the system

Question 2

Reicher & Haslam (2006) criticised the SPE. What were some of the points made?

Answer 2

1. Findings are difficult to verify as it was not all recorded
2. All data was observational
3. Unknown whether ppts actions were because of their acceptance of roles or leadership of experimenters
4. Not all prisoners were resistant and not all guards acted tyrannically

Question 3

Banuazizi and Movahedi (1975) made what criticism about the SPE?

Answer 3

The lack of ecological validity

Question 4

Reicher and Haslam recreated the SPE in 2006. What was the experiment called?

Answer 4

The BBC prison study

Question 5

What is tyranny?

Answer 5

An unequal social system involving the arbitrary or oppressive use of power by one group over another